Jaguas, Guayanilla, Puerto Rico

Jaguas is a rural barrio in the municipality of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 1413.

Features and demographics
Jaguas has .72 sqmi of land area and no water area. In 2010, its population was 1,413 with a population density of 1962.5 PD/sqmi.

History
Jaguas was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the combined population of Consejo (which was Concejo) barrio and Jaguas (which was Jagua) barrio was 1,162.